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  Selected Poems (Paperback) By (author) Derek Walcott, Edited by Edward Baugh

  

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  Short Description for Selected PoemsDrawing from every stage of his career, Derek Walcott's "Selected Poems" brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated "Omeros" and selections from his latest major works.
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  • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Published: 26 December 2007
  • Format: Paperback 328 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9780374531119 ISBN 10: 0374531110
  • Sales rank: 1,093,976

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• Drawing from every stage of the Nobel laureate's career, Derek Walcott's "Selected Poems "brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated "Omeros" and selections from his latest major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor. Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.